![The 49th Parallel: A New Rubicon for Democracy](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/05/Canada_America_1716301614.png)
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” so taught civil rights campaigner and feminist Rita Mae Brown. There is no more fitting maxim for the broken American system that in 2024 has allowed Donald Trump to return as a major political party’s presumptive nominee for its highest office. [...]